The most famous example is Travis, a chimp actor who eventually would famously maul Charla Nash, a friend of his owner. The Greek tragedy that is Gordy harkens back to real-life stories of chimps who worked in the entertainment industry. (The shoe standing on end suggests that there is possibly something supernatural going on, but the more pedestrian explanation for Gordy's behavior is the more unsettling.) We never fully understand why the popping balloon sound set Gordy off, but arguably, unlike a horse, a chimp was never meant to be tamed and put in front of a crowd to mug for the cameras. In one of the first scenes, OJ is on a set where his warnings go ignored, and is fired when the horse kicks upon seeing itself in a mirror thanks to a careless crew member. The Haywoods work in Hollywood as horse trainers-good ones who are respectful of their animals. Nope is preoccupied with the idea of entertainment and what humans do to entertain themselves. It's Gordy all over again, except this time there's no emerging unscathed as Ricky did before. When Lucky, one of OJ's steeds, refuses to come out of the pen and be bait, the alien-which the Haywood siblings eventually name Jean Jacket, after one of their old horses-decides to suck up Ricky and his entire audience into its gullet. Except what Ricky doesn't realize is that it's not a spacecraft, but an organism, one that's feeding. Like OJ and Emerald, Ricky is aware of the otherworldly presence and has been using the Haywood equines to lure it with plans for a stage show. So what does Gordy have to do with the UFO that has been visiting Agua Dulce, scooping up the Haywood's horses? Nothing and everything. Yeun sells a nightmare as a joke, only briefly allowing the trauma to peek through his eyes. When Emerald and OJ Haywood (Keke Palmer and Daniel Kaluuya) visit him in his office to discuss selling their family's horses to his theme park, he brags about how SNL did a Gordy sketch where Chris Kattan, of Mr.
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He keeps a room full of Gordy's merch in the park, which he charges exorbitant fees for tourists to see. Yeun, in the present day, gives an extraordinary performance of someone burying their trauma in a hilariously grim way. Just as Ricky reaches back, Gordy is shot in the head. After Gordy has seemingly come to, almost confused by the destruction he caused, he moves toward Ricky hand outstretched for an "exploding fistbump"-a move Ricky claims he invented. When Peele finally gives the audience the full flashback, we see the extent of the destruction. He mauled Ricky's costars while Ricky hid, terrified, under a table. That's because during the second season of the show, in the middle of a scene celebrating the ape's birthday, Gordy heard the pop of a balloon and snapped. While nostalgia for Kid Sheriff is how Ricky markets himself, Gordy's Home is his most infamous work.
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Ricky now runs a theme park called Jupiter's Claim in Agua Dulce, a rural area north of Santa Clarita far outside of Los Angeles, capitalizing on his success from a movie called Kid Sheriff. The primate was the chimpanzee star of a sitcom called Gordy's Home starring Ricky "Jupe" Park, the former child actor played by Steven Yeun.
The audience is left stewing in those initial images for a while before we get the full Gordy story.
Gordy, in some ways, is what Peele's entire film hinges on-the notion that not every animal can be tamed for human amusement. His saga is told outside the plot, but is thematically central, sure to prompt endless theorizing. Gordy, acted in mocap by Terry Notary, is also Peele's most elusive addition to his narrative. That chimp is Gordy, the most horrifying creation in Peele's UFO spectacular-scarier than the otherworldly visitor making horses disappear. A chimp nudges her foot as if to check if she's still alive. One of her shoes has been removed from her foot and stands up straight. It's unclear if she's dead or badly injured. A girl's body lays unmoving on the ground. Then Peele cuts to the disaster that unfolds: The risers are bare, with jackets and bags people left behind while fleeing strewn on the seats. It's a happy image, but one that curdled almost immediately when Jordan Peele's new movie Nope began.īefore we even see a single frame of footage, audio from a (seemingly bad) '90s-style sitcom plays, its lame jokes echoing with a studio audience laughing. I'm sitting on a sitcom set couch curled up next to a baby chimpanzee, giggling as the ape leans on me. There's a photo of myself that's etched in my brain from childhood.
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